With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City. Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York with her newly blond best friend looking for adventure. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them. By day, the girls sell clothes on a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave between Brooklyn, the Upper East Side, and the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. Resources run ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. Through it all, Isa’s bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill. Happy Hour is a novel about getting by and having fun in a system that wants you to do neither.

"This book is for anyone who wants to enjoy work more--whether you are an employee or a manager, a new hire or a grizzled veteran, work in a small start-up, a huge corporation or the public sector. This book will give you the theory of happiness at work, simple, effective tools that you can use to create a better work life for yourself and a happier workplace, a massive dose of energy to get you to do something about it right here and now, [and] a specific plan to help you change your job for the better, find a new job where you can shine or to make your employees happy, motivated top-performers."--Page 4 of cover.

Over the last few decades, advances in neuroscience have illuminated important discoveries about our capacity for learning, problem-solving, creativity, success, and happiness. Happy Hour with Einstein won't get you a degree in neuroscience, but it will enlighten readers with recent research about how the brain functions and those factors which impact cognition, creativity, and memory with practical strategies for a smarter, happier YOU! Part one explores the regions of the brain and explains how laughter, doodling, movement, surprise, and gratitude have been proven to change the way we think and learn. Part two enables you to put that information to work in the form of a gratitude journal. Think of it as happy hour with Einstein and a few other brainiacs sharing their discoveries in "plain speak" over a few cocktails. So belly up to the bar for a few inspirational hors d'oeuvres and intellectual small plates that will change the way you see yourself and the world.

Entertain at home with ease, whipping up a delectable spread of pre-dinner treats, or simply transform a weeknight into a happy hour that rivals that of the swankiest bar. Bringing the party home with drinks and snacks just got easier -- even the amateur mixologist will be shaking and stirring in no time. Happy Hour at Home boasts sure-to-please classics like the Manhattans and mojitos, along with more inventive twists like Watermelon Cosmos and Kimchi Bloody Marys. The book also includes 90 recipes for a host of delicious treats, from Spanish tapas to American bar classics like sliders and oven-baked fries, to French and Italian-inspired flatbreads and olives that pair perfectly with cocktails for the ultimate at-home happy hour.

Happy Hours, cheers to life is a relationship guide that offers easy techniques that are simple to use yet can bring a sea difference to our relationships. When we talk of relationships, we are including here, our relationship with our spouse, in-laws, kids, our colleagues at work, our subordinates and seniors and definitely relationship with our own selves. All of us strive to live a happy life and bring satisfaction to our people and to ourselves but something stops us leaving us wondering as to what goes wrong that doesn’t allow us to be happy as we want. What breeds that sense of gap between our being and where we want to reach. Offering you some self-help relationship techniques on the platter doesn’t guarantee a solution to all the problems in our lives but it certainly assures a flavor of the realization how small changes in our approach towards life can facilitate huge transformations. They say, ‘happiness is a state of mind’, let us create that state of mind. So read on and explore innovative and creative ideas as to how we can make a living out of our lives.

"[A] noteworthy examination of women and alcohol delivers compelling personal stories that illuminate previously neglected aspects of this devastating social problem." — Publishers Weekly Mixing cutting-edge research with affecting stories of women who struggle with alcohol problems, Happy Hours challenges our assumptions and expands our awareness of the role alcohol plays in women's lives. In this important book, Devon Jersild explores the common cultural forces that influence a woman's drinking—trauma, sexual abuse, and marital status. Jersild has spoken to treatment specialists, doctors, therapists, and counselors, and interviewed women who share their often dramatic stories. Her research findings are a wake-up call to many women who are in the dark about the effect of drinking on their mental and physical health. For example: Women metabolize alcohol differently from men, more quickly developing such physical complications as liver disease, high blood pressure, and hepatitis. Female alcoholics are twice as likely to die as male alcoholics in the same age group A female alcoholic is more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, which may not go away even if she stops drinking. An astonishing four million women in the U.S. meet the diagnostic criteria for abuse or dependence. Happy Hours is not just about alcoholics. It is aimed at any woman who has ever wondered whether she drinks too heavily or too often, and at anyone who has a sister, mother, grandmother, child, or friend whose drinking has caused them concern.